Happy 26 December Hubski
There are MANY windows into your lives. Here's one: RECENT SEARCHES
If you use Chrome on your phone, you'll see three lines at the very top left next to the word "Google." Touch those lines and a menu pops down. The second item is "Search History."
What are your most recent searches?
Here's mine:
1. Why do squirrels lose their fur?
2. Gayness in Schitts Creek (I have never watched this and don't even have a TV, but came across a Twitterer looking for a show that includes a gay relationship but isn't about prejudice and homophobia -- but about the relationship and its development, like any other relationship.)
3. Slow cooker chicken soup spices
4. Famous double agents
5. Hamilton real estate
6. Lockdown Ontario
7. Filipino Rice Arroz Valenciana
8. Binary thinking (This led me to a great article called "How to Avoid Binary Thinking and Think More Clearly"
9. Hatfields and McCoys
What are yours?
I was looking for a visual reference for a tabletop roleplaying game that I am organizing and acting as dungeon master for. I've always found the visual styles of Tibetan and Nepalese Buddhism appealing and a character in this game I'm playing follows something akin to that kind of faith. I learned that there are both the standard, immobile prayer wheels that I'm used to seeing, like this. As well as a handheld version that looks like this.
A writer for my parent's local newspaper had the revised Swedish translation of his notebooks as one of their favorite books of the year. I was vaguely aware of him as another one of those French thinkers I will never get around to read, although I ended up downloading The Plague after reading through his wiki page.
1. GoPro Hero 8 (got my wife one for Christmas) 2. fdm mail (mentioned in article, wasn't familiar with fdm) 3. enuresis (during discussion about a child, didn't know that term) 4. brother scanners (looking to scan old photos, on linux) 5. 230 centimeters to inches (researching bags for storing/transporting Kayak paddles 6. best Kayak vest (time to move on from cheap and bulky water skiing vests) 7. (was a typo for website address)